I'd like to to consider it a right. I'm not asking for free health care, but the fact that I haven't been to a doctor or dentist regularly in 10 years despite being almost middle class says something. It's just not affordable if you don't have insurance.
I'm still bitching at the outlawing of smoking in restaurants and bars for the "health of the workers" and yet we don't even get health insurance. We make a choice to work in the environment we do and people who come in are adults and can make the choice if they want to be in that environment as well. It's just retarded.
I do not disagree with most of what you are saying and we are pretty much tracking on the same page...
I guess I am hung up on the word "right" such as defined in our Constitution...
I do not argue that health care is expensive... I believe the subject is a lot larger than cost... i.e. Mal practice law suits, illegals using emergancy services for primary care... Etc.
I was in the same boat as you are with such iregular visits to a health care practioner until I joined the Army... Otherwise it was just too expensive for me to pay into and or not offered by my emploer
I was never in a position to afford health insurance before but to have a "right" there is no law forbiding anyone from having it...
So there it is its just expensive...
To me its like having a right to own a house... You either can afford to or you rent or lease... Until you can, otherwise you sock the money you would be paying monthy towards health insurance into savings in a hope for the best plan for the worst scenario...
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I'm still bitching at the outlawing of smoking in restaurants and bars for the "health of the workers" and yet we don't even get health insurance. We make a choice to work in the environment we do and people who come in are adults and can make the choice if they want to be in that environment as well. It's just retarded.
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I guess I am hung up on the word "right" such as defined in our Constitution...
I do not argue that health care is expensive... I believe the subject is a lot larger than cost... i.e. Mal practice law suits, illegals using emergancy services for primary care... Etc.
I was in the same boat as you are with such iregular visits to a health care practioner until I joined the Army... Otherwise it was just too expensive for me to pay into and or not offered by my emploer
I was never in a position to afford health insurance before but to have a "right" there is no law forbiding anyone from having it...
So there it is its just expensive...
To me its like having a right to own a house... You either can afford to or you rent or lease... Until you can, otherwise you sock the money you would be paying monthy towards health insurance into savings in a hope for the best plan for the worst scenario...
Take care...
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